Drew

Drew is so very cute these days but I am starting to see glimpses of him starting to assert himself which opens the door for the terrible twos. Whenever Daddy comes home at night he runs over and shouts "DA!!!!!!!!!" over and over again. He has also become our little echo. Whatever the last word we say in a sentence he repeats it. He learns and says new words every day. Tonight we were reading a book and one of the character's names was Gabby. He liked that name and repeated again and again until bedtime. We went to Sports Bounce again today and he would try his best to sneak behind all of the bounce houses. At home, if you catch him with something he isn't supposed to have, he will run away from you. He's extremely fast and can usually get pretty far with it. He loves to say, "No" but will nod his head and say "Yes" if it's something he really wants. The other day in the car, he identified (by saying the actual words and pointing) a bus, mail man and plane. If you ask him to point to a character he knows in a book he gets it right every time. He's also very eager to learn new words and will point to things in books just to get you to say the word so that he can try and repeat it. He loves playing in the rocks in the backyard and throwing them down the stairwell to the basement (which drives me crazy). He does this silly thing where he will walk around the house pushing up on the toes of his left foot and walking flat-footed with his right so that it appears he has a limp. Some of his more recent favorite words are: "snack," "show," "two," ( I swear he can count to five) "shoe," "toe," "moose," "frog," "bug," "car," and "outside." He has also started to tell me when he poops in his diaper. He will come up to me and point to his diaper and say "poop!" He still loves to brush his teeth and is very good about going to bed at nap time and at night, though morning naps are few and far between these days. He tries to sing songs along with Jack and can do a bit of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." He's just so fun to watch grow even though I always have to be on my toes around him. Little Baby Drew is growing WAY too fast!